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• Is WIPO Taking An Evidence-Based Approach To IP Enforcement?

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 460
  While the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is often seen as being inherently in favor of stronger intellectual property rights, every so often, the organization shows itself open to more reasonable approaches. A few years back, for example, it questioned the evidence on patents, and had trouble finding ...
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• Brownlee: Not an ardent follower of fashion. Merely obsolete.

  
  The Standard — Authority: 597
  One of the things that has surprised me about the government and Brownlee’s energy policy is that it is so mundane and 20th century. In every other area of their political electoral strategy we saw a pithy slogan, often pinched from overseas, substituting for policy and dumbed it down to the level of the dittoheads ...
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• Consumers shrug in the face of lean inventory

  
  Shop Talk — Authority: 554
  Lean inventory may be the secret weapon that retailers are depending on to survive the holiday season with earnings intact. But consumers don’t exactly seem to be quaking in their boots at the prospects of finding empty racks this Christmas season. According to the ICSC , with 18 days until Black Friday and 46 ...
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• What next? The labor theory of value?

  
  Corrente — Authority: 617
  Via Baseline Scenario, where James Kwok comments that Brad DeLong is never afraid to admit error, this from DeLong: “Back in the 1930s there was a Polish Marxist economist, Michel Kalecki, who argued that recessions were functional for the ruling class and for capitalism because they created excess supply ...
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• Rogers vs. Roubini - Inflation vs. Deflation

  
  GreenLightAdvisor Views — Authority: 436
  Bloomberg’s William Pesek discusses the ongoing debate between inflationists represented by Jim Rogers’ views, and deflationists represented  by Nouriel Roubini. It’s a, well, golden opportunity. Investor Jim Rogers thinks gold will double to at least $2,000 an ounce. Economist Nouriel Roubini says ...
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• Attack of the Home Buyers Tax Credit

  
  Economix — Authority: 736
  One reason to fret about federal anti-recessionary fixes is that they often last long after the crisis that justified their creation, an economist writes.
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• Banking on the State Support and vice versa

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 501
  Andrew Haldane once again. I have been covering his works in the crisis and all have been excellent reading ( here , here and here ). In his recent paper cum speech  co-written with  Piergiorgio Alessandri  he tells you how banks have changed over the years: Historically, the link between the state and ...
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• Artificial satellites are helping farmers boost crop yields

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 437
  Image via Wikipedia FOR farmers, working out the optimal amount of seed, fertiliser, pesticide and water to scatter on a field can make, or break, the subsequent harvest. Regular laboratory analyses of soil and plant samples from various parts of the field can help—but such expertise is costly, and often ...
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• Greece Statistical system as bad as India’s

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 501
  Eurointelligence daily edition of 10 Nov 2009 has this interesting titbit: EU  finance ministers outraged about Greece FT Deutschland has an article about the sheer sense of outrage felt, and expressed, by EU finance ministers about the situation in Greece, where the new government suddenly revised upwards ...
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• Benefits of GST for Indian economy

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 501
  I had posted a while back  on India’s goods and service tax. In that post I had pointed to a primer and a speech from Dr Kelkar. In that speech Dr Kelkar had estimated the gains of GST for Indian economy based on similar gains made in Canada. In his recent speech (not recent actually, given in October 2009) he ...
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• The History of The Economist Magazine

  
  All About Music and Jazz — Authority: 129
  The Economist is an English-language weekly news and international affairs publication owned by The Economist Newspaper Ltd. and edited in an office in the City of Westminster, London. Continuous publication began under founder James Wilson in September’43. While The Economist calls itself a “newspaper”, each ...
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• Economist set to launch mobile app

  
  Thoughts of Nigel — Authority: 142
  More news of the media concentrating more on the mobile platform. Paid Content reports that Economist.com is about to launch a paid-for iPhone app to accompany its global business-school league-table data and its annual spin-off print magazine Which MBA?. and adds that MBA data is free but a search feature ...
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• Sales Of Existing Homes Increasing

  
  San Diego Blog — Authority: 127
  Existing home sales are on the increase, with first-time buyers driving the surge, according to a report from the National Association of Realtors. The sales volume in this housing sector has been growing substantially over the past six months. The increasing sales volume applies to single-family homes, townhomes, ...
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• Attack of the Home Buyers Tax Credit

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  One reason to fret about federal anti-recessionary fixes is that they often last long after the crisis that justified their creation, an economist writes.
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• Market weathers more bubble fears

  
  Money employment & careers - money-employment.marc8.com — Authority: 147
  What matters in the market sometimes arent the highs and the lows, but how much the market moves in the course of a day or a week. Kai Ryssdal explores the markets with Chris Low, chief economist at FTN Financial.
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• Important News - Nov. 09

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 449
  Personal story: “Taking Control of My Life”. 1)  Unemployment Rate in U.S. May Reach 13 Percent, Rosenberg Says “Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. unemployment rate may rise to a post-World War II high of 13 percent in the aftermath of the recession, said David Rosenberg, chief economist at Gluskin Sheff ...
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• The Economist: a white-on-red poster, finally!

  
  Bhatnaturally — Authority: 424
  This is from Singapore and not UK. That’s perhaps the reason why this new poster for The Economist still follows the ‘old’ format of clever headline, white on red. It feels good to see some new work in this format, though. Via Ads of the World. Agency: Ogilvy, Singapore. I am not a big fan of the new ...
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• Trendwatching in large quantities of social content

  
  Cision Blog — Authority: 416
  Photo courtesy of Tom Purves via Flickr Managing huge quantities of data has become one of the central challenges of science today, according to two articles in the New York Times and the Economist recently. For example, the International Astronomical Union met in August and discussed astronomy’s “trend ...
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• Cooked, or at least toasted, books on productivity

  
  Corrente — Authority: 617
  Times : A widening gap between data and reality is distorting the government’s picture of the country’s economic health, overstating growth and productivity in ways that could affect the political debate on issues like trade, wages and job creation. The shortcomings of the data-gathering system came through ...
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• Roundup: Caught up

  
  Managing Leadership — Authority: 98
  Continuing from Friday’s post, today we are going to finish up reviewing some of the blog and press activity of the past few weeks which touches on themes we expect to address here soon. Again, virtually all of this material is on my daily reading list, and I mention that here because I think it would make an ...
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